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What does "po" mean in Filipino?

1 answer · last activity 4 days ago by Mark Giraffe‭

particular-word Filipino

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How did 'to wit' shift to denote 'that is to say'?

0 answers · last activity 5 days ago by PSTH‭

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Is it true to say that Lao script is a simplified version of the Thai script?

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orthography Thai Lao

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A possible common confusion between electronic, digital and virtual

0 answers · last activity 20 days ago by Moshi‭

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Why did David Ricardo coin "rent", to signify income from a factor of production that exceeds the minimum amount necessary (to beget that factor of production)?

0 answers · last activity 20 days ago by Moshi‭

etymology English

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How did "as" amass all its confusing "broad and vague meanings"?

1 answer · last activity 20 days ago by PSTH‭

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What sound did the letter ℵ encode in ancient Hebrew, and why did it morph into the greek vowel Α?

2 answers · last activity 25 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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How does the original meaning of “but” (“outside”) relate to its current 2021 meanings?

0 answers · last activity 25 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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Why wasn't the prefix 'ad-' used for 'in-' + 'putare'?

0 answers · last activity 25 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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How did 'in-' + 'putare' compound to mean 'to attribute, credit to'?

0 answers · last activity 25 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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How did 'forfeit' shift to signify ‘penalty imposed for committing such a misdeed'?

1 answer · last activity about 1 month ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology

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Is any theory according to which Yiddish is Turkic or Khazar-based supported by any serious evidence?

1 answer · last activity about 1 month ago by Jirka Hanika‭

German Yiddish Turkic Khazar Cuman

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The Thai words for "definition" and its derivates

0 answers · last activity about 1 month ago by JohnDoea‭

Thai

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Why do only certain letters have an ending form in Hebrew? [closed]

0 answers · last activity about 1 month ago by msh210‭

Hebrew

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How did 'solicit' semantically shift to signify ‘manage affairs’?

1 answer · last activity about 2 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology

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Why “chose” in action? Why not “right/droit” in action?

1 answer · last activity about 2 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology legal-language

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Why is the word here "HaNofelet" and not "HaNofalet" when there's a grammatical pause?

0 answers · last activity about 2 months ago by msh210‭

Hebrew

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Why do the most spoken human languages in 2021 greet with words related to health or peace?

1 answer · last activity about 2 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology

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How did “negotiable” mean “a good or security whose ownership is easily transferable”?

1 answer · last activity 2 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology

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What is the most dominant Arabic dialect in Horn of Africa region?

0 answers · last activity 2 months ago by JohnDoea‭

Arabic

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Are Sudanic Arabic and Yemeni Arabic similar?

0 answers · last activity 2 months ago by JohnDoea‭

Arabic

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What spoken human languages in 2021 don't salute with words related to health or peace?

0 answers · last activity 2 months ago by PSTH‭

list-of-languages

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How did “a pesar de” signify “in spite of”?

0 answers · last activity 2 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology Spanish

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How did "join issue" mean ‘jointly submit a disputed matter to the decision of the court’?

1 answer · last activity 2 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology legal-language

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How did "put under" shift to signify "cause to take the place of", then "enough"?

1 answer · last activity 3 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology Latin

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How did 'quibus?' shift to mean 'evasion of a point at issue'?

1 answer · last activity 3 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology Latin

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Please expound and simplify the semantic progression behind "reduce"?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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How did kúklos ("circular") shift to signify "general"?

1 answer · last activity 3 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology Greek

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Why are service or maintenance contracts called 'warranties', when they aren't Legal Warranties?

1 answer · last activity 3 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology English

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How does "drive out" shift to signify "weigh out"?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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What's the Semantic Field of puto?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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How did "represent" semantically shift to signify "standing in the place of another"?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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How did 'folding back' semantically shift to mean 'reply'?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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How can "lemma" be translated as "rede-ship" with merely Germanic etymons?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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Vietnamese lệnh and Thai เลย

1 answer · last activity 3 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

Thai Vietnamese

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What did the etymons of “on by + out, over, up” mean?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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Expound and simplify the "semantic progression" behind "must"?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Moshi‭

etymology English

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How does the notion of “in defiance of” signify “notwithstanding”?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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How does "happening" appertain to "(be)falling"?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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Does al-Asma'i's poem "صوت صفير البلبل" (the sound of the whistle of the bulbul) has a story to tell?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Medi1saif‭

poetry

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How can "in terms of" substitute for such prepositions as "at, by, as, or for"?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Moshi‭

English semantics

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How do Latin etymons that end in English in *-tion* nearly always name a process?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by PSTH‭

Latin

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Why past tense in imaginative play in Finnish?

2 answers · last activity 3 months ago by ugo‭

Finnish children

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What is the origin of the missing "to be" in sentences like "the car needs washed"?

1 answer · last activity 3 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English historical-linguistics dialects

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How did 'less than' semantically shift to mean 'if not'?

2 answers · last activity 4 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology

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'Caution' and 'cautious' with ʃ or ʒ?

1 answer · last activity 4 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English pronunciation sibilant intervocalic voicedness

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How does backwardation semantically relate to "backward"?

0 answers · last activity 5 months ago by tommi‭

etymology English finance

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"Us neither" - Is it valid?

0 answers · last activity 5 months ago by Moshi‭

English grammar

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What is a good translation for "waypoint" into Catalan?

2 answers · last activity 5 months ago by Peter Taylor‭

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